John Cadwalader

John Cadwalader (10 January 1742-10 February 1786) was a colonel of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
John Cadwalader was born on 10 January 1742 in Trenton, New Jersey to a family of Quakers, and in 1776 he was promoted to colonel of the Philadelphia Associators, a militia that was formed by Benjamin Franklin during the American Revolutionary War. Cadwalader's Pennsylvania volunteers would join George Washington's army in Pennsylvania to bring his army up to 6,000 troops, and he was ordered to take 2,000 troops across the Delaware Riger to attack Carl von Donop's 1,500 Hessians at Burlington, New Jersey as Washington attacked Trenton, but the ice prevented his artillery from crossing the Delaware River, so he kept his army in Pennsylvania, leaving Washington unsupported. Only Washington's great victory at the Battle of Trenton on 26 December 1776 led to the withdrawal of the Hessians from Burlington, and Cadwalader would arrive in New Jersey in early 1777 to continue the fight against William Howe's British army as it withdrew through New Jersey. In 1778, Cadwalader engaged Thomas Conway in a duel due to Cadwaladre's support of Washington against the "Conway Cabal", wounding Conway and forcing him to return to France. In 1779, Cadwalader returned home, and he died in Kent County in 1786.